No. Language in the act is explicit that nothing in the act establishes a Federal reserved right to groundwater. The act sets forth the attributes of the Hopi water rights on the newly acquired lands and provides how conflicts that may…

I rise to comment on S. 982, the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act. I was pleased that the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed the bill that Senator Leahy and I introduced, which will strengthen current public…

I rise to comment on the economic espionage bill introduced by Senators Specter and Kohl. I was pleased that the Senate Judiciary Committee passed this bill, which will strengthen current public law on crimes against our industries. It…

I rise to comment on the FAA authorization bill. Although I recognize the necessity to authorize certain FAA activities, such as the Airport Improvement Program [AIP], I am concerned with two provisions in the bill. I appreciate the hard…

In 1993, a flood caused severe damage to four areas of Arizona. They were considered Federal disaster areas. The Arizona congressional delegation met with Director Witt in October of last year. He assured us that FEMA would move promptly…

I was reminded of the fabler, Stephen Leacock, who wrote the story about the fleas riding on the back of a chariot. They looked back and said, ``My, what a fine cloud of dust we have made.'' It seems to me that Bill Clinton's crowing about…

I am pleased and honored to offer an amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill for assistance to Ukraine. Ukraine's achievement this year in the areas of ethnic stability, human rights and constitutional reform are…

I think that every one of the people who smeared House Speaker Newt Gingrich not only owe him an apology--and it should be a very direct and specific apology--for the comments that the Senator from Georgia just read, but they owe an…

If the Senator from Georgia will yield for a moment, the point here is not to extract an apology for the sake of an apology, but rather, I think, to make a larger point. Clearly, when the Speaker of the House is vilified the way he was…

We are doing our part in Congress to revitalize this war on drugs. We just passed the Commerce, State, Justice appropriations bill, which will improve our enforcement and interdiction efforts. It increases the funding substantially. I…

given the poor record of the Clinton administration on drug enforcement it ought to be enough to simply note that this amendment is needed to bring funding up to the level requested by President Clinton. In an Investors Business Daily…

since President Johnson declared his War on Poverty, the Federal Government, under federally designed programs, has spent more than $5 trillion on welfare programs. But, during this time, the poverty rate has increased from 14.7 to 15.3…

while the Supreme Court has issued decisions protecting the rights of parents to direct the religious upbringing of their children, the lower courts have narrowly interpreted these decisions to give them almost no value as precedent. As a…

methamphetamine is, if not the most dangerous drug in America today, one of the fastest spreading. In Western States, meth is already the crack epidemic of the 1990's. Meth is cheap, easy to manufacture, and readily available. The drug is…

there are far too many people in Washington who like to play fast and loose with other people's money. They are not content just to tax away a large share of people's hard-earned incomes to spend on government-knows-best programs. They…

it is regrettable that the bill that comes before us today combines two unrelated and very different issues--tax relief with an increase in the minimum wage. I presume that the two issues were coupled in an effort to mitigate the adverse…

I was perplexed, to say the least, as I sat through hearings as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee just before the Fourth of July break, hearing testimony from Mr. Livingstone and others regarding this matter of the FBI files. I…

it is my pleasure to offer an amendment to make $3 million available from the $168.7 million in the Counterproliferation Support Program for the Surgical Strike Vehicle [SSV], which, when deployed, will hold at risk hardened or deeply…

the attacks on the churches, predominantly in the Southeast, are far more than attacks on these institutions--they are attacks on the very foundation of the United States. This country was formed to protect people's religious liberty…

I believe the answer to the question is that a veto would lie in the event that a majority of the Congress voted to disapprove the President's action.

My guess is, if a majority of Congress voted that way, it would send a message to the President. This, in any event, is a restriction that does not exist under current law. Today, the President can simply say, ``I am going to test because…

Without any involvement by Congress or without any report. Under our amendment, Congress has the ability to say no, and the President would have to continue to submit a report to us and he would have to report to us on the necessity for an…

Yes, clearly it is, because without the Kyl-Reid amendment, if China tests, the President can test, period, end of story.

let me make what may be my concluding remarks. The Senator from Oregon, who will make a motion in just a moment, had two primary points. I would like to respond to both of them. The first is, he said we do not want to change our testing…

This is an illustration of why this amendment would be useful. Without the Kyl amendment, first of all, the President would be able to conduct an unlimited number of underground nuclear tests just because China conducted a test. Second…